Pocket type-writer.



H. VIRY.

- I POCKET TYPE WRITER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, 1912.

1,037,564; Patented SeptS, 1912.

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HENRI VIRY, or nAMBEnvILLE, FRANCE.

rocKn'r TYPE-WRITER.

Loansca.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I; HENRI VIRY, a citizen of France, residing at Route St. Gorgon, Ramberville, France, have invented a new and Improved Pocket Type-YVriter, of

. adjustable disk.

Intypewnters of this kind, as heretofore it has been necessary either to use both hands to produce the typeimpressions, or the type, wheel has not been capable of making a complete revolution. The former of these defects is especially disadvantageous'when the typewriter is used during a journey,- as one hand is then re quired to hold the machine; while the latter defect necessitates the constant reciprocation of the type wheel, with the result that it i has frequently to be rotatedthrough a much larger angle than would be it continuously rotatable.

necessary were Now by means of the present invention both of these de-' fects are obviatedwiththe result that a" pocket typewriter in accordance with this invention is adapted to serve as a standard machine free from all such defects. These advantages are secured by means of an arrangement wherein, wheneventhe type wheel is depressed, a lever connected with the bedplate is also depressed and by this means simultaneously depresses that arm of the type wheel, which is adjusted beneath it; while simultaneously with the depression of the. wheel and the downward movement ,of the lever there is brought into operation ratchet gear which arrests the disk to which the types are attached and adjusts it in such manner that the impression of the type on the paper is produced exactly in'the riglit ace.

Atypt writer accordin to the present invention possesses theif urt er advantage that the paperfeed mechanism is very considerably simplified.

The accompany ng drawings illustrate apparatus in accordance with this inven tion wherein Figure 1 is a plan of the typewriter viewed from above; Fig, 2 is aside elevation of the entire apparatus; 3 is a section on the line A-B of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a Specification of Letters Patent.

'plate Patented Sept. 3, 1912.

Application filed May 23, 1912. Serial No. 699,104.

section on the line C D of Fig. 1 and Fig. 5'is a plan of the type wheel.-

The typewriter comprises a bed-plate. or support 1 to which there is hinged a plate 2 which can be raised or' depressed, and which carries the type mechanism. On the end of the bed-plate 1 opposite to that at which the plate 2 is hinged, there is arranged a lever 3 by means of a hinge 27. The typewriter can be held in the left hand by means of a bent handle 16. To the lower face ofthe plate 2 there is attached the type wheel? shown in Fig. 5, having its circumferential portion divided into arms orv fingers to the lower face of which'are' attached the types preferably made of rubber. One

rotating the indicator 14 rigidly connected with the rotatable type wheel 7 over the 2, any desired character on the type can be brought into printing position. disk. 19 secured to wheel Beneath the stationary the plate 2 there is mounted on the-shaft of knob 18, so as to be rigidly connected with the wheel 7 and the indicator 14: a spur wheel 6, provided, as shown in Fig. 1, with teeth of considerable depth, by, means of which the position of the adjusting disk 6 can be corrected if, when the lever 3 is depressed, the adjustment has not been accurately efiected, the manner-in whichthis is eifected being hereinafter more fully described. The rubber types on the wheel 7 are inked by means of an annular inkpad 15 against which the entire type wheel is pressed when the plate 2 is depressed. The inkpad has a portion cut away at the/place at which the lever 3 depresses the, type of which an impression is to be produced r The lever 3 which, as-already stated, is

connected with the bed-plate'l by means of the hinge 27 is provided with a slot a with which there engages a pin m on the plate 2, thus insuring that when the plate 2 and the type wheel 7 are depressed, the lever 3 will also be depressed and passing through 'a'iio' slot in the plate 2, .zwill press against that aim of the type heel 7 which has just been theslide-lO is attached a shackle or dog 9 so arrests its further forward movement. The transverse movement of the paper carrier 13 is effected in the well-known manner by means of a roller.

What I claim is 1. A pocket typewriter comprising a support, a plate hinged thereto, a wheel rotatably secured to said plate at the lower side thereof, said wheel being provided with a plurality of radially extending fingers, types on the lower faces of said fingers, a slotted lever fulcrumed to the support, and a pin on the plate that engages. the leverslot, whereby 'a depression of the plate effects an engagement between the lever and the underlying finger to print the type carried by said last named finger.

2; A pocket typewriter comprising a type wheel which can be raised and depressed; types that are attached to radially extend ing arms of the type wheel; an adjusting device and an adjusting-disk (6) connected with the type wheel, the adjusting disk be ing provided with pointed teeth which effeet the arrest and accurate adjustment of the type wheel; and a lever, which is connected with the bed-plate, is provided with a guide-slot, and the end of which is adapted, upon the depression of the type wheel to bear against the type adjusted to printcause animpresadjusted to printing position. The lever 3 is connected by means of a link't. with a slide 23 that is guided on the plate 2 in such mannerthat when this plate, together with the lever 3, is depressed, the slide 23 is moved tothe right. The slide 23 is provided with a pointed projecting end which is guided between two studs 20 on the plate l 2. When the slide-is moved forward this projecting end is forced against the teeth of the spur wheel 6 alreadymentioned with the result that, if the type is not quite accurately adjusted, the pointed end of the slide 23 will move the spur wheel 6 somewhat to the right or left, as may be required, and thus bring about the accurate adjustment of the type-wheel 7 before thedesired impression is obtained.

Fig. 3 illustrates the mechanism. To the sides of the plate 2 there are pivoted at 22 a pair of lever-arms 8 that bear against hooks 11 on a slide 10 that is subject to the action of tension springs 12, and is movable in guides 24 and 24 arranged in the plate 1. To the end of paper feeding that terminates in a detent 21 and a projection 25; The detent 21 passes through the plate land engages with apertures 26 in the carriage 13 located beneath the bedplate 1. hen nowthe plate 2 is depressed for the purpose of securing an imprint, the levers 8, by means'of' the hooks 11 move the slide 10 to the left in the. guides 24 and 24 with the result that the detent 21 carries the carriage 13 to the left until the projection 25 comes in contact withthe guide 24, and by this means turns the shackle Q upward and thus removes the detent 21 out of the apertures 26 of the carriage 13 and mg position and thus to upon the lever pushes forward a slide provided with a pointed termination adapted to pass between the teeth of the said adjusting disk (6.) v

' HENRI VIRY. In presence of- H. 0. Com, J NO. BAKER.

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addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

sion to be produced on the paper, where- 

